If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'